57. Song Mina kneeling down and praying

‘As expected, he’s here’

Since all government agencies have left for the Black Gate site, it is speculated that they have sent a request for assistance to all nearby places.

Since Hellmund Academy is close to here, it must have been included in the list of support requests. Once you know you’ve sent out a request for support, it’s easy to predict who’s coming.

In the practical magic class I was running that was reputed to be the most difficult to get into at Hellmund Academy, there was a talented girl who always occupied the upper ranks.

Mina Song.

Her talent was truly amazing.

‘Honestly, if he possessed instead of me, he’d be stronger.’

I used the advantage of being possessed and became stronger by eating all the hidden pieces, hidden items, and magic methods I knew. Originally, the innate talent itself was not high. However, Mina Song is the opposite.

Innate talent itself is exceptionally high.

Of course, this is normal. Because Song Min-ah is a student who has never missed the top spot in the Hellmund Academy, which is the most difficult to enter among all academies in the country, and the practical magic class that is also considered the most outstanding there. It’s something she couldn’t even dream of with her dizzying talent.

‘The monster’

Of course he wasn’t stronger than me at this point, but even with the [Harsh Fate] Debuff applied, tremendous energy emanated from his body.

‘I felt a lot of betrayal from the other guys, but I felt especially betrayed by that guy…’

Anyway, there are quite a few students who aren’t strong in force. For the beginners of the practical magic class, there are a lot of donations to the academy, and there are many ways to get in. But the intermediate and advanced classes are not like that. Only those with proven skills can come.

Minah Song has proven skills and is the strongest among them. I told her everything I could for her sake.

Of course, I didn’t tell her about her knowledge that was far from this world, such as her external mana and circle break, but I tried to grow her as much as I could. It was because there was fun in crafting unprocessed jewels.

It was a pleasure to teach because she has a great talent for learning one thing and learning two things. Just watching them grow made me proud.

‘Even though, in the end, they didn’t believe me.’

It is difficult to estimate the amount of time and money spent on Song Mina.

I heard about it as much as the time we spent together was long. But, she doesn’t believe me at all.

-Kadeudeuk

I was angry again.

As I was looking at Song Min-ah, she walked toward me as if she felt her gaze.

-Truck Truck Truck

Finally reaching me, she bowed her head.

“You are the masked instructor, right? I heard from the person in charge of the field. They say that many people have been able to live thanks to you. Because I received the request for support too late, I was not able to get to the site quickly. I just arrived. I’m sure… If it weren’t for you, I would have had to fight the terrorists facing dead people. Thanks again for saving people.”

Song Mina bowed her head and thanked me. I replied in a blunt tone.

“No big deal. I didn’t mean to say that it was good in the first place. You don’t have to thank me, as you probably don’t even know anyone who was there.”

Then, Song Mina tilted her head and asked me a question.

“Did I miss something?”

‘A mistake?’

‘It’s not a mistake, but I made a mistake. The skills I taught you, the items and potions I poured in, and even the methods of using magic that cannot be valued with money. I spared no investment whatsoever.’

-Thank you very much, instructor… I will repay you for this favor for the rest of my life.

I still vividly remember the way she thanked me in the past.

‘Then why didn’t you believe a word I said? You said it was embarrassing You shouted that I didn’t do it. You didn’t believe me even once because I didn’t do something.’

I held back the words that were about to come out of my mouth.

‘F*ck…no matter what I say, nothing will change.’

Baek Joo-seok is under arrest, and Yang Han-gil has fled after the Black Gate incident broke out. The Black Gate didn’t happen because of Yang Han-gil, but he escaped without taking any action, so if he gets caught, he will be punished as he deserves. Also, all of the practical magic students were under the debuff of [Harsh Fate]. Even if I don’t care anyway, it will collapse on its own.

‘I don’t even need to mention it.’

I didn’t want to hear the lame reason. I didn’t even want to question why he didn’t trust me. I didn’t even wonder what was going on with her. Now, I don’t even have that kind of affection left.

‘How hard it was for me.’

After coming here, all relationships on Earth were severed, and I was active alone. The only people I could trust or communicate with were the students of Helmund Academy. All of my relationships have been with them. But everything I’ve done in one moment. And all the relationships I trusted were severed. After that, I had to spend like a dead person.

I had to spend every day resenting those who didn’t believe me even though I treated them sincerely.

Of course, I made a NATUBE channel shortly after I was virtually expelled, and after gaining fame, I succeeded in returning. Baek Joo-seok kills and threatens the guild members he hired for money, and now he is on the verge of completely clearing himself of the false accusation of using the intranet without permission, which he had to bear as Choi Joo-won. Currently, the intranet is in the process of being forcibly opened, but that will probably be a few months away. But all of that was done by me.

‘What if I was weak? What if it wasn’t for this overwhelming power?’

If I hadn’t known how to use magic like an external mana or how to use it, I wouldn’t have become popular as NATUBE. Even if he had gained popularity, he would have never dreamed of clearing the A-class dungeon in order to break through the criticism of being a quack from Baek Ju-seok head-on if he did not have strong power. If I hadn’t possessed overwhelming magic skills, I would have been killed by Baek Ju-seok in the subsequent sparring with Baek Ju-seok. Besides that, there were many other things. But all of them were things that I was able to solve because I was strong.

If I were weak, if I had no ability. At the point when I was expelled from Hellmund Academy, I would have become a disabled person, locked up in my house, and died of old age alone, being blamed by everyone. I would have had to live as such a trash that I couldn’t meet anyone due to the sense of loss and couldn’t even go out for fear of people’s criticism.

-Kadeudeuk

Thinking about it made me even more angry.

I spoke briefly to Song Min-ah, who tilted her head in front of me.

“You didn’t make any mistakes. I’m busy, so let’s go.”

She paused for a moment, then reached out to me.

“If I made any mistakes, I apologize to the masked instructor. I just wanted to express my thanks. Many people have lived thanks to you. You are a hero.”

‘It’s annoying.’

When I didn’t shake her hand, she obstinately held out her hand, blocking her body.

I held out her hand, thinking that I should give her a rough handshake and send her away quickly.

“Yes, I understand, so go now. I am busy too.”

-Tup

The moment we held hands with Song Mina.

-Hoo woo woo woo

‘What the f*ck is this?’

The ring on her hand started to resonate with my mana.

-Hoo woo woo woo

She looked at me with blank eyes at the exciting waves of mana.

“Huh?…”

‘F*ck no way…’

I looked at her fingers urgently.

‘Why are you still wearing that?’

Song Mina’s hand was equipped with a ring-shaped artifact that I had given her before. Because that artifact was specially made by me, it is physically designed in such a way that it resonates when I directly touch it.

“Tsk.”

When I clicked my tongue, Song Mina’s eyes started to tremble.

“Go… Instructor? Instructor, right?”

“Yes, I am a masked instructor. I am an internet instructor.”

Minah Song shook her head as she cried in an instant.

“Now… Don’t play around, you know what I’m talking about? Instructor Choi Joo-won is right!”

‘Such a crazy bitch.’

-Paaat

The point at which she spoke up to… I deployed a voice-blocking spell around her who was talking about my name when there were many people around. Measures were taken to prevent outside noise from being heard.

Seeing my actions, Mina Song fell to her knees as if convinced.

‘Why is everyone doing this? No matter what I do, the time I lost won’t come back.’

S-class instructor, a sincere, kind, and capable person who was respected by everyone. A person who was well-received for teaching students with sincerity. Everything I’ve built over the years is now a thing of the past. No, rather than that, it just became an irreversible past like a broken glass.

“Haa…”

I looked at Mina Song on her knees on the floor and sighed deeply at her.

Tears fell from her cheeks as she looked at me with her bright eyes.

And she opened her mouth.

“Instructor… I… I can explain everything…”